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This year has been a huge year for sports with the Rio Olympics, the FA Cup Final, Wimbledon and so much more. One thing is clear; sports fans are a passionate and engaged group of people. In terms of popularity, soccer (aka football if you are from across the pond) remains the number one most popular sport of all with over 4 billion followers across the world. It’s no coincidence that soccer is also the highest paid sport of all with billions of dollars going into salaries and bonuses. Basketball comes in second with a smaller but still pretty impressive total of 1 billion followers.

There are a ton of sports fans out there who want their voices heard and one of the great ways they are able to follow their favorite competition, team or player is online through blogs or through social media. Barcelona and Real Madrid are two of the largest and most valuable sports teams in the world. They are also the two teams that had the best overall social media in sports last year (according to Forbes). Of course, social media is not just about the team, its also very much about “the stars of the show” like Messi or Ronaldo. And best of all, social media gives fans the opportunity to react to and interact with the teams they love and with each other.

Sports fans are evangelists

Sports content online is a huge arena, both in terms of the actual sports events themselves and in terms of the online content generated about these events like blogs, reports, reviews, and website content. Something else to keep in mind is that sports are a very unique arena in terms of its audience. Sports fans aren’t just customers, they are, as Stanford Business points out much more passionate than that; fans will paint their face, fans will evangelize. Fans are already bought-in and extremely fervent about the sports they follow.

Standing out from the crowd

There is tons of content out there, and as more bloggers, sports organizations and even the teams themselves look to expand, increase revenue and drive more traffic to their sites, everyone faces an increasing level of competition. Even more than with other content, sports content is all about interaction. People don’t want objective reporting on their favorite event; they want exciting coverage and great conversation. The online world can facilitate this type of interaction, and the main way it does this is through comments and social media. Having a comments section transforms a static blog or web page into an active and dynamic conversation.

Go one step further with voice

While text-based sports interactions allow for a conversation, using a wider variety of media helps to improve the overall quality of content. One great modality to explore here is a voice. Using voice comments instead of text comments allows sports fans to communicate in a more personal way, and in a way that is almost as if they were face-to-face with each other. Voice comments can also facilitate conversations with sports fans and the teams they love. Another great feature is the option to leave a high-quality voice snippet on a website so fans can directly listen to what their favorite sports commentators and players have to say.

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There are huge differences between the online shopping experience and the real-life brick-and-mortar one. And while the online retail industry has boomed in recent years, and many claims that online shopping is hands down far better than the offline version, there is no real definitive evidence to show that one mode is better than the other (either in terms of sales or customers satisfaction). What is clear is that there is a strong trend towards building a seamless shopping experience that involves better integrating the online and offline components of retail.

One of the best ways to improve the overall shopping experience is to add more digital components to the in-store experience. There are some very basic ways to do this like adding phone and digital device catalogs or info booths, but there are some interesting and more sophisticated modes of operation that are starting to happen. For one thing, Adidas recently launched a Virtual Footwear Wall in partnership with Intel. Shoppers can use the wall to view a huge array of footwear. Other solutions include augmented reality shopping experiences that allow customers to view products in their home environments and virtually experiment with products in different models, colors and locations.

Apps are helping us shop better in real-life

Physically bringing digital devices into a brick-and-mortar shop is one way to better integrate online and offline shopping, but another great way to better connect the two experiences is through apps that have a connection with the real-life world of shopping. A great example of this is the Target app. With Target, you can look at products in specific branches of real Target shops and know exactly what is available, or what special offers are relevant before you set foot in your local branch.

Increasing online sales with voice

While bringing online and digital elements in-store seems like a no-brainer, the most challenging part of the equation is how to bring offline elements to online shopping. When it comes to online shopping, a lot of the interactions are impersonal especially since customers increasingly shop marketplace giants and don’t always hear from the end-sellers. Niche sites and boutique marketplaces like Etsy make it easier to interact with shop-owners but there is still something inherently impersonal about the way it’s done.

One of the technologies that bring the personal touch of offline shopping to the online world is a voice. Adding a voice pitch to a store allows customers hear you talk about the products you love and the great offers you have as if you were meeting them in real life. Just think of the example of a clothes store; ok, so you customers can’t try on your clothes but if you have a special offer or a bestseller you can record a pitch. You can even record multiple pitches. Every user that gets to your store can hear the pitch and choose to respond with a voice comment. This helps you interact better, and ultimately bring the offline and online experience together to create more sales.

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2016 seems to be full of exciting new voice tech. There are a whole variety of personal voice assistants like Siri and Cortana. Smart Homes have gotten serious with incredible looking devices like Google Home and the Amazon Echo (both of which are voice controlled) and cars have gotten smarter to the point where ambient temperature, music and even navigation can be voice controlled (thanks to Dragon Drive, Google Now and more). It seems like an incredible new leap in voice tech is happening and it has huge implications for the way we do pretty much everything. But these amazing technologies didn’t come out of the blue; in fact, there are a whole bunch of sci-fi stories, books and films that predicted pretty much every voice trend we are witnessing.

Smart homes

In one of the greatest sci-fi novels ever written, by one of the greatest authors of all, we had one taste of the future of smart voice tech in our homes. Philip K Dick’s Ubik brings us a reality where all the basic components of a house interact through voice and cash. In this dystopian vision of smart homes, the protagonist is forced to pay his door as it loudly demands a 5-cent entrance fee. The toll door in this novel is also a fairly advanced artificial intelligence and is frequently described as stubborn and smug. And all the appliances share these basic characteristics – they are voice activated AIs that demand tolls from their resident. Ubik was written in 1969 and fairly accurately predicted the future of smart homes (minus the hilarious and stubborn attitudes and the constant demands for payment). This is way ahead of the first emergence of smart homes in the early 2000s.

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Voice assistants

There have been numerous references to voice assistants in science fiction for decades, but an interesting, albeit fairly recent emergence of the tech in sci was in the popular film Her. The film pushes beyond the next generation of voice assistants where they will be sentient and able to help us with our every need. Her (spoiler alert) shows us a world were personal assistants are so far advanced, that the humans that use them are able to fall in love with them. Falling in love or having a relationship with a disembodied voice or cold technology may seem pretty far-fetched, but there are already realistic looking bots out there that may develop to be the companions and love interests of the future.

Troubleshooting

While the future of sci-fi and voice tech looks more or less streamlined and straightforward (except of course, for some of what Philip K Dick has to say), the real world is beset with tech glitches and setup problems. And while smart home devices like Google Home have incredible potential, they are often a little tricky to get going with. Luckily there are some great blogs out there, like Joy of Android’s how to article on Google Home, that help users fix the trickiest of problems. If you are having trouble with voice commands and responses, with your touchpad, or even with your Google account, the article can give you some tips on how to fix these pesky problems and start fully leveraging smart home tech.

What’s next

We are at the beginning of the new wave of voice-controlled tech and the future is certain to bring many marvelous new creations. Looking at sci-fi we can see some hints of what’s in store. As well as acting as our home devices and personal assistants, the voice-controlled devices of the future may be our companions and friends, and are certainly likely to be integrated across multiple environments and devices. Think of all the ship based AI intelligence like those on the various incarnations of the Enterprise in Star Trek. The computer here is completely voice controlled and while they still have what look like tablets and other handheld devices, almost everything can happen through conversational and even friendly exchanges with the ship’s computer. Andromeda takes this even further, bringing the ship to life both through voice and through an avatar that for all intents and purposes look like a young human woman. The ship here is much more than just a ship, and the avatar is one of the main characters in the show, striking up relationships with the flesh and blood humans. And these are just a few examples of how the future of voice might look.

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SEO refers to search engine optimization and covers all the technical and creative elements involved in improving site rankings and driving traffic to your website. This includes a lot of different things, from generating consistently great content, to the ways in which you structure your website and the links you include in it. Over the years, SEO has been evolving in more sophisticated and interesting directions, and today, the trends of voice content and voice searches are set to further change the world of SEO.

The evolution of SEO

There have been tons of changes in the world of SEO. Once, SEO was all about cramming in the correct keywords into a web page or blog. If you were an air-conditioning salesperson than you can bet the word air-conditioning would have featured roughly one thousand times in every sentence. Keywords were very much at the center of things. However, over time, search engine algorithms have become much more sophisticated and have learned to favor more natural types of speech. When Google released Hummingbird in 2013, it moved SEO towards more conversational content. In 2016, search engine algorithms have gone further, and content that is longer and more in depth tends to do better. Content with photos also consistently outperforms text-based content, and backlinks remain essential.

It is not just text and images that are rapidly changing the world of SEO. The increasing popularity of voice search means that today over 20% of mobile queries are voice searches. These kinds of searches are based on questions rather than keywords, and they are changing SEO. For one thing, content that is conversational or that answers questions (think FAQ style) are performing well. It’s also likely that instant answers will become more popular and feature as the response for a greater number of voice-based queries. However, this doesn’t mean that we should stop paying attention to typed searches. At the moment, a whopping 80% of all mobile searches are still text-based.

Voice content also changes things

Web site and blog content tend to be a mixture of text, video, and images. And while video and image content is incredibly important, and proven to help with SEO, audio-based content is the one to watch in 2016. The fact that people are using voice assistants more and more frequently suggests that the importance of voice content is also increasing. If you can’t look at your screen and can only voice search, then it’s reasonable to assume there are many times when audio content would be preferable to content that forces you to stare at your phone or laptop. And, as voice and speech analytics continues to improve it is only a matter of time before keywords and phrases in voice become an essential part of SEO.

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Disruptive innovation is a term coined by Clayton Christensen back in 1995 that describes the way a new technology enters, disrupts and fundamentally changes a market. The concept has gained traction in recent years and describes common market patterns. As incumbents in various arenas focus on their core market and on creating and refining ever better technologies (and ones that their customers may not in fact need), they leave the market open to other newer companies that are able to swoop in and disrupt the market with business models that appeal to a different target market, include a different technology or have lower margins.

There are countless examples of fledgling companies, innovators and entrepreneurs who have swooped in and fundamentally changed existing markets. One great example is SodaStream who changed the beverage category. In an arena ruled by giants like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, creating a new soft drink and gaining market share is extremely challenging. Among other things, this is connecting to the bottling factories, which are either owned by or in partnership deals with the incumbents. On the other hand, building an entire bottling plant from scratch is an incredibly expensive capital expenditure, which has the risk of never yielding good returns. To solve this problem, SodaStream essentially eliminated the need for bottles by allowing you to create the soda you want yourself, in your own home. This has fundamentally changed the way we purchase and consume soft drinks.

Digital disruption

In 2016 in particular, much of the disruptive innovation that has taken place has been in the digital realm. New digital technologies are not just disrupting tech giants, they are also radically transforming traditional arenas of business such as agriculture, health care, manufacturing and even government. Of course, not all of this is restricted to online innovations. In many instances, radical disruption of existing industries occurs in the nexus of the digital world with the world of hardware, or in other words, the Internet of Things. But in some cases, the digital world is learning to reinvent some of the constants and behaviors that we have come to take for granted.

Voice is disrupting industries

Voice technologies are transforming digital worlds by giving us voice assistants, voice-activated driving and now voice based comments and reviews platforms. One of the more traditional and unchanging aspects of websites and e-stores has long been the comments and reviews sections. This is something that was integrated into web platforms years ago, but it is only in recent years that the importance of user-generated content as a marketing channel has been fully understood. And it is now that new technologies are rethinking the way reviews and comments are created and the very platforms that support them. With comments and reviews, the focus has long been on text-based user testimonials and ideas, but all this is finally shifting towards voice.

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While the future is full of menacing potential policies and vast uncertainties, the past is full of disappointment for Hilary’s supporters, many of whom are struggling to get to drips with what just happened. Today is the 5th day of Trump protests across the nation and the purpose of these protests is not just a protest against Trump but a movement of solidarity for immigrants and others that Trump’s presidency may well negatively impact. And though the future is still unknown, a lot of people have a lot to say about things. Now more than ever, there is a huge amount of speculation on what will really be the outcome of this new President Elect. And whether you love, hate or are downright fearful of Trump’s impact on the US, the media needs to provide not just information but a safe space for debate. If you are a blogger or content provider, it’s critical – now more than ever – to foster the right environment for discussion.

Build a meaningful discussion

The key to creating a discussion is to build a meaningful rather than a toxic dialogue and this can be tricky. Curtailing one-sidedness and learning to engage in emotional dialogue are a good place to start. To do this online, you need the right tools. While pretty much every blog and website come with a comments section, this traditional text-based mode of communicating may actually be doing more harm than good. When we write online it is inherently ambiguous because we are losing so much of the personal aspect of communication that is part of the tone of voice and body language. Of course, it is impossible to truly bring all of this to the online world at the moment (maybe in future we will all be communicating through VR avatars and things will change). But for now, it is worth exploring voice comments and reviews, a far more direct and personal way to let your readers express their election opinions.

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The first voice activated car driver was Dr. Foster (played by David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider back in the 1980s). The voice activation system in question was the Pontiac Trans Am, the Knight Industries Two Thousand (otherwise known as KITT), and was a fully-fledged AI that functioned as Dr. Foster’s partner in solving a crime. Fast forward to 2016, where the legendary Knight Rider is about to get an exciting reboot and where voice-activated driving is no longer just something out of a TV show or an overly active imagination. And ok, voice-activated driving assistance may not quite be ready to reach full sentience and help us stop crime, but there are a whole bunch of smart voice-activated systems out there that are helping us drive better.

For starters, there is a wide range of navigation apps on the market, like Waze, that help us ditch traditional sat nav devices while benefiting from crowdsourced information on traffic, accidents and more. And of course, voice plays a big part in all of this; but if that alone isn’t exciting enough, you will be pleased to know that you can now use Morgan Freeman’s voice on Waze, for all the iconic driving wisdom you might need. Another app to pay attention to is Google Maps Voice, which lets you navigate via voice commands through your Apple or Android phone. This means no more pulling over while driving in order to update your route (yay). The app also helps you find petrol stations, restaurants, and supermarkets on your way home.

And it’s not just apps that are getting smarter; cars are getting smarter and progressing closer to the goal of AI. BMW’s voice control system now lets you control various features of your car like climate control, your sound system, and of course navigation. And instead of typing in instructions you can just tell your car to take you home and it will. The exact system you get depends on your model of car, but Dragon Drive from the Sedan 7 series is arguably one of the best. Dragon Drive allows you to talk to your car conversationally and even let’s you interrupt so you don’t have to listen to long menus. Hopefully, systems like this will help to reduce the number of car accidents caused by texting (which currently make up roughly a quarter of all crashes in the US alone).

With increasingly hands-free technology, a voice is changing the way we drive. And though there are still issues with voice recognition, voice technologies are rapidly improving, with companies like Baidu reaching a reporting 96% accuracy level. There haven’t yet been many studies on the impact that hands-free is having on drivers. One study from a few years ago suggests that voice is no safer than text in terms of distraction. However, this was based on a small sample size of just over 40 individuals and was tested on older technologies with a much lower level of accuracy. As voice tech becomes more intuitive and more conversational it will likely make driving more convenient and comfortable while also making it safer.

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It has been 110 years since the very first voice over was recorded by Reginald Fessendon, the first ever voice heard on radio. Over 20 years later, Looney Toons came to life along with Mickey Mouse and many other iconic cartoon characters. Walt Disney had the honor of introducing the first ever cartoon voice in 1928. And in the 30s the voice over industry began to expand rapidly with larger and larger numbers of animated films being produced. This led to the formation of actor’s guilds and the professionalization of the industry. In the 1940s the first legal TV ad was run. In the beginning, voice-overs were anonymous “in-between” jobs and remained very much behind the scenes. This remained the case for a long time, but in recent decades voice-overs have increased in popularity with the release of major cartoon blockbusters, and the world of voice-overs has come to the forefront of acting.

There is a long list of celebrities who have lent their voice to various cartoons; just think of James Earl Jones and Jeremy Irons in the Lion King, or Edie Murphy in Shrek. And the list goes on. Over the years, voice-overs have transformed from behind the scenes odd jobs into a valuable marketing tool for the film industry. When new cartoon films come out, most audiences are looking out for which celebs will be involved. A case in point is the new movie Trolls with an all-star cast including Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, and Anna Kendrick. The wide range of well-known celebrities voicing films is a useful marketing tool to target not only children but also parents.

And while the status and wages associated with voice-overs have transformed over the years, something else has been happening in parallel. The big name voice actors and celebs remain rooted in the old work paradigm of agents and auditions, and much of the industry continues to work this way. However, for a lot of voice-over actors, the bold new frontier is the online market. The voice over market has expanded rapidly on online marketplaces like Fiverr to the point where you can basically find any voice you want for around 5 dollars (you might have to pay more for longer jobs or extras but this is still incredibly cheap).

The quality can be a bit hit and miss on major marketplaces offering such a wide range of skills for money. And in response to this, a number of voice over only marketplaces have been opening up. Voices.com is the largest online marketplace for voice-overs and provides a whole range of services including radio, cartoons, audiobooks, business and more. With a lot of online marketplaces, the focus is on speed and low-cost which means that quality often suffers. But today, a number of online marketplaces have opened up to ensure that the voices customers pay for are high quality. Voicebunny allows you to scroll through and select a voice over from a wide range of professional actors.

While voice-overs continue to merge and change, they remain a backbone of the way we communicate and entertain. Now more than ever, voice and voice-overs are critical not just for advertising, but also for education, communication, entertainment and more.

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While the major operating systems of Android and iOS have had varying levels of voice command for quite some time, many apps have lagged behind with only written and visual inputs and outputs. But little by little all of that seems set to change as an increasing number of apps go hands-free. Last month, Google Maps finally launched its long overdue voice feature. This is especially helpful for drivers who can now find gas stations or change their routes while they are driving without having to pull over to type, or even worse, type and drive. And according to research, you are 23 times more likely to have an accident while texting, and texting while driving accounts for over 1,600,000 accidents per year in the US alone. Hopefully, the increasing move towards hands-free voice technology will help to reduce these awful statistics.

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And it’s not just Google Maps that is changing the world with voice. Google’s Voice Access app allows users to completely control their phone with voice. Google has really jumped on the voice trend in a big way, and this technology, in particular, helps people with motor impairments navigate their touch screens. It still hasn’t officially released, so Google is still busy ironing out bugs, but it looks set to be a transformative technology for users who otherwise have difficulty manipulating touch screens and handheld devices.

And while Siri still runs the show on Apple, there are plenty of great Android alternatives out there. Voice assistants can really transform how you use your device, and once again, Google has a strong presence in this field with Google Now. It is reportedly one of the best voice assistants on the market and has a wide range of features and continuous updates from Google. Microsoft’s voice assistant is Cortana, another popular choice for Android users, which integrates well between PCs and handheld devices and can basically do anything a real assistant can do (ok, maybe not everything). And there are many more options out there.

All in all, voice technology is changing the way we do almost everything. In future, we may never even touch the devices we use, once everything is seamlessly activated across devices and platforms with easy-to-use voice commands. Voice activation is definitely the new wave of technology and has already been adopted and heavily invested in by all the tech giants. And, while voice accuracy is still never 100%, the stats are rapidly improving. In fact, Google, China-based Baidu, and startup Hound are already achieving around 90% accuracy. So if you haven’t started using voice, now is the time to transform the way you work and start to join the hands-free revolution.

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Video games were once the realm of Pacman and Space Invaders, with various blobs moving across screens accompanied by a symphony of bleeps (don’t get me wrong, those games are still amazing). But as the technologies evolved to allow for more complex and immersive video game experiences, the characters and sounds of video games have evolved as well. The current format is like a complex and interactive film, and in many ways, the actors are as important as they would be in a film or TV show. Yet, for the most part, video game actors remain anonymous, hidden behind various animated characters.

Voice acting is a very different gig to regular on-screen acting, or to acting at the theater. For one thing, there is no set script but rather a series of optional and interactive choices. They characters and the dialogue depend on the players and the choices they make within the game. Today’s video games are often full of stunning visuals, and have great actors; but there are still problems with shoddy script writing, discrimination and more. Yet the genre continues to evolve and improve providing the world with more compelling characters and storylines in each new game.

For a long time, video game characters have been popular animated figures powered by anonymous actors. For example, think back to Lara Croft. We can all remember the movie with Angelina Jolie, but how many of us can actually remember the voice actor behind the video game? (The truth is there were actually a whole series of actors). Today this voice anonymity is starting to shift as increasing numbers of celebrities voiced video game characters. And this makes sense especially considering the top video games easily make more than similar Hollywood Blockbusters. Grand Theft Auto V made an enormous $1 billion dollars in just three days.

So who are all these celebrities lending their fame to video games? Well, Gary Oldman voiced the Call of Duty series, the incredible Sir Patrick Steward has voiced a number of games, and Ron Perlman has reportedly voiced over 25 separate video games. Emma Stone and Lucy Lui have also lent their voices to various different games. In fact, there is now a very long list of celebrity voices in video games, an industry that is reportedly worth an enormous 111 billion dollars.

But despite the celebs, the size of the industry, and its increasing development and success in recent years, the gaming industry is all set to go on strike on October 21st. The issue at the center of things is the enormous profitability of the industry versus the fact that voice actors in video games still make so much less than actors in Hollywood blockbusters. In addition, many of the actors have complained about vocally stressful sessions including screaming and shouting that can actually cause long-term damage to actor’s voices.

While the compensation issue remains to be settled, it is clear that voice is at the center of the gaming world. However great the visuals are, without a compelling storyline and realistic characters, video games just wouldn’t have the same appeal to target audiences. So paradoxically, while the technologies are moving us further away from the real world, voice remains the center of things, anchoring the games in a real-world and almost personal connection with ever more elaborate characters. And this is just the beginning; VR and AR look set to completely revolutionize the gaming industry. Provided actors are compensated fairly, the future of gaming is all set to look and sound fantastic.

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